I’ve had a truly lovely day 🙂 In a perfect ideal world it would have had a window of about 90 minutes somewhere between 1pm and 3pm where it didn’t rain or look like it might possibly rain in which we could have headed out to the Clearances Stone along the road to Harris and Kilmory. It is easy walking and has a fab view back towards the croft so I could have tested out my new camera. But it didn’t and frankly I was not up for the gamble of getting wet, the children were very happy playing with the lego and we had loads of wind whizzing the turbine round and powering the internet so instead we stayed in, Ady bought me a constant supply of tea (laced with brandy after a certain hour) and so we didn’t bother.
For the first time in about 4 years we had a bedtime intruder – Scarlett woke after a bad dream at about 3am and came into our bed. Our bed barely fits the two of us so with an additional body plus teddy it was a squash and a squeeze! To the point that at 5am Ady stopped trying and came to sleep in the lounge. Except Scarlett and I were not aware of that so continued to try and sleep squished up on my side of the bed. Ah well.
So we were up late, Ady cooked bacon sandwiches for everyone and then we just hung out. I had a real flurry of blast from the past contacts on facebook including a lovely message from the Mum of a friend 🙂 We watched eagles circling and then a buzzard getting mobbed by crows – love that looking out of our windows is so often like an Attenborough documentary :). I got my camera from Ady and the kids and a surprise cloth bag saying ‘ignoring advice since 1974’ which is just fab 🙂 Cards including a home made Davies card, one from my Granny, the official one from my parents and then a bright purple sparkly glittery ‘fabulous at 40’ one written in by Frazer, Kat, Mum and Dad including lovely things written which made me cry.
At 5pm we headed down to the village, ostensibly to put in the veg order but fairly obviously so that Rum folk could do the birthday thang. The shop was bedecked with balloons and the whiteboard said ‘Nic is 40 celebrate 40 years on the planet’. Lots of birthday kisses from all around. Mel & Em gave me a lovely bottle of wine (which I had had at theirs on Boxing Day and said was lovely), Jinty gave me a very large glass of baileys and a seed sprouter with the ironic recommendation that it is great for chickpeas ;), Abby baked me a cake, Vikki gave me another bottle of wine (my favourite from naked wines which we both signed up to for a while) and a book we had been talking about last week, Lesley gave me a box of Lush stuff, Fliss had left an Isle of Rum bag (long coveted, never purchased) filled with a loaf of bread, some honey and orange butter and a bar of soap but my best and my favourite gift of all which was a song written about me by Jed, our resident visiting rock star singer songwriter called ‘Nic is turning 40’ all about me, our wind turbine and washing machine, our caravan, my cool kids raised outside the system, my veg growing, my strong man and how I might be turning 40 but I only seem 20 to Jed, it was awesome 🙂
It was all very lovely and we left at 8pm to wander home. I rang my Mum while Ady cooked dinner – venison steaks and home made chips 🙂 and brought me a large glass of wine too. We watched a Good Life and a Will & Grace.
And now, at my age, I really should be in bed 😉
Fab – just as you deserve! xx
Comment by Mich — 07 January 2014 @ 8:57 pm